Kraken vs ABBYY FineReader
Kraken is cheaper per page; Kraken is faster; only Kraken supports handwriting; only ABBYY FineReader supports tables.
Krakenkraken/kraken | ABBYY FineReaderabbyy/finereader | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Office scans to Word and PDF |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | 190+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Kraken
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Kraken detailsABBYY FineReader
Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.
ABBYY FineReader detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}